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- 6th - 12th
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Students visit an on-line art museum in Paris, analyze several landscapes, and explore the painting techniques. They become familiar with distinctive aspects of classical Impressionist landscape paintings. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students create a landscape painting using traditional Chinese techniques. They review Chinese landscape paintings, paint an original landscape and write a poem to go with their picture. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students view and discuss a variety of landscape paintings. Then they develop their Chinese painting skills by creating paintings using Chinese paint brushes. Then they create a traditional Chinese landscape painting on a hanging scroll. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine works of landscape artists and create their own artwork. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine the composition of landscape paintings with an emphasis on foreground, middle ground, and background. They view and analyze a painting by Poussin, and create an original imagined landscape. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students examine the evolution of landscape painting in France from the 17th to the 19th century. They study and compare three landscape paintings, emphasizing space, depth, and the concepts of foreground, middle ground, and background. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students use the methodology described by Prown (1982) to interpret paintings. They determine artistic, historical, and scientific content and develop an understanding of aspects of nineteenth century American culture. They study the paintings for their internal content and evidence. Full Review »
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- 4th - 11th
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Students create a stencil rendition of a landscape in this introductory lesson to the history of landscape art from the Renaissance to present day. A video is included to aid in the creative process. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students apply Impressionistic painting styles including perspective, shading, color wheel, and the use of tempera paint in powder form. They research information about Impressionism and the artists who participated in the Impressionist movement. They create a landscape painting reflecting the Impressionist styles. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students work together to create a landscape painting. Using the musical "The Lion King", they must relate the painting to it and use while an adaptation is being performed at the school. Using the internet, they also review images from Henry Rousseau. Full Review »

